Introduction

Hey guys, someone pointed this board out to me so I thought I'd tell you all what I'm all about and what my goals are in reporting. I'm 17 and I'm currently working on making a career out of baseball writing. To do that, I established my Twitter account (

) where I report on the latest news and rumors, and I also write for MLBDailyDish.com, which is a rapidly growing division of SBNation. In no way have I ever made anything up in terms of rumors/news, and I have many legitimate sources in agents, front office executives and players who feed me information before it goes public. I have been able to break many stories before anyone else, including Zambrano-to-Phillies, Vlad-to-Long Island Ducks, the return in the Nolasco deal, part of the Clevenger deal, and part of the Corey Black-Soriano deal last night. As you know, its a very competitive industry where everyone is going for the same information, so it's tough to be first on a lot of stuff....especially this time of year. I don't have the same contact list as Heyman/Rosenthal/Olney, but it's slowly getting there. I also report what everyone else already has, and cite my sources every single time. I've never stolen work that isn't my own.

 

With that said, I look forward to passing my work along to you on the boards and hope for some good Cubs' discussions. I love the passion that your fanbase has.

 

Best,

 

CC

Welcome, Chris!

 

You shouldn't have to justify your work to anyone, most especially random message boarders like us. From what I can gather you're pretty dedicated to your goals, if you stay on that path you should be fine.

 

 

To completely contradict myself a bit though, can I offer one bit of constructive criticism? I unfollowed the MLB Daily Dish twitter account the other day. Partially because it was redundant with other sources of information, and partially because it seemed like it was basically a retweet factory for the tweets from your personal account. I know you're not the only one who manages that account or writes for Daily Dish, but you might be conscious that to some you seem desperate for attribution. To me at least, it was off-putting, to the point where I stopped following.

 

Thanks for stopping by, and best of luck to you!

 

Makes sense...part of the reason they have me on that account is so I can RT what I tweet from my personal one. I've been more conscious of that lately and have just copied and pasted. Just laziness, sorry about that. Appreciate the input!